This is the cover for GSA Field Guide 34. Formation of the Sierra Nevada Batholith: Magmatic and Tectonic Processes and Their Tempos Edited by Vali Memeti, Scott R. Paterson, and Keith D. Putirka ...

Continental arcs are generated when an oceanic plate dives (i.e. subducts) beneath continental crust, causing melting in the mantle and the formation of volcanoes on the overriding continent. In ...

I'm officially out of the mountains in the Mineral King area - the field work went great, we collected some fabulous Triassic-Jurassic rhyolites from a pendant in the Sierra Nevada Batholith (and also ...

Boulder, CO, USA - The December issue of Geosphere, The Geological Society of America's Web science journal, is now online. The issue's two articles examine (1) the Stateline fault along the southern ...